Nouns and cases
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In English: case
The form of an article, pronoun, adjective or noun that shows its job in the sentence. German has four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. English shows the same idea only in pronouns: he, him, his.
Example: Der Mann gibt dem Kind den Ball.
Related lessons
- The accusative: den, einen, and the direct object (A1)
- The dative: the indirect object and dative verbs (A2)
- The genitive and its prepositions: wegen, trotz, während (B1)